{"id":3236,"date":"2019-07-09T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2019-07-09T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:34:44","slug":"the-princess-is-in-a-cooler-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/the-princess-is-in-a-cooler-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Princess Is in a Cooler Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take an alternate route home this morning due to railroad construction, and then the extra traffic on the way in to work very nearly made me late. I spent all morning with Brice doing the cleanup work orders at Oakland. Allen came by and helped after taking care of something else.<\/p>\n<p>Ben brought smoked turkey for lunch, so I had to run to Neighborhood Market for my side. I brought potato salad and rolls, because I didn&#8217;t realize Jason was bringing some kind of cheesy potato salad type dish. Both people in front of me in line paid by cash at the self-checkout, which was stupid and slow. Why do people use money?<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon was more of the same, with the addition of Amanda and Jason for a short while. Summer and Ben stopped by after Mark stood them up for their meeting, but I couldn&#8217;t really help them. Ben let us have a working lunch, so most of us left early. I ended up going to the high school to drop off some things first, where I got caught up chatting with Bryan for a minute outside. I didn&#8217;t realize higher level administrators had the same number of contract days that we have.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/r9y6RIiCeIXVP0qhMn4r6Wiqeu1OseU3xoDezGoRFDahliXfKo4Z5DbQ-PiCHIGtg_1EQSLTdDktcTiXfBZHP2Mm0M2uz0A8qmpOVQ-H9KkXqGgad2a9wEAS1kIlN9Z7jMrAOeJC5LwSxdb1eQYIu4qvyOrGnNTzdxTvgw9oFcN9187KG_a4YnJzLJTMD7I285GJccMk7qBZhmzvA-Bg9xColDOAf3kLbYgdqS25cNU1KkUgM2SULSmDUL3vxSY2ruXY5GD-tv3VGJKy-TP-u88GiDJUiuJAkBADfK1eVeLyWO7X4_0_Qrx87Xow6MPL24fmAMkr3r7X86EaEe2oU3EnE3OJzvgx4DHi5-JYNhj6ZVHf6DXL2rstmJn3tunUXFBeGj7N9p491MSk-HzL3zfTUbJU8iJ8Hr6aeLyvd_Kc2jYgY19txKTON8T_wlOkTGOsq1YUzB3Hueibk2uVMtGPcvadGcYYj35CCHU4L-LkzDjD6QFxn6fE1k_5u1_k9zUXaWnJnmyNs_xz47wQWe7t_JvmDGcNCd9wVoTMOGRQzpeXn8j2mHrjtfiV5Ana6_PQXGDZwZDtIRiveMuJ8sUoWp6cpUYFSmO2MmyH-ccmNzglI7AQb37F4stmXYz_71do9Ps01yhh8tkmXoR3QrwgvhlgZGDuiTJi5H06w8P4tD6FoC3zem8FxvKzx1iErFpHA5-BMCgZd5DF5bdWpx3kOQ=w1292-h970-no\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>I stayed super late in my new office, hooking up one of my speakers and contemplating a desk move. Then I went home and started water changes in all of the aquariums before having to pick Eaddie up from karate. We went by my parents&#8217; house without any real plan, where we ended up eating some leftovers and doing puzzles. Eaddie was doing them on her phone, while I put together a 3D castle that Dad pulled out of the closet.<\/p>\n<p>We headed back to Summer&#8217;s pretty late, and I was so exhausted that I just crashed there. It took my house a frustrating hour to cool down four degrees, and I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the weather, or if there&#8217;s something wrong with the new unit, or if it&#8217;s just not designed to be shut off for long periods of time. In any case, I need to spend some more time at home now to take care of all of this stuff. I just feel like I&#8217;ve been run over by a school bus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And at the end of it all, my only regret is not spending more of my life working for a living.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;<strong>nobody ever<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to take an alternate route home this morning due to railroad construction, and then the extra traffic on the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,51,29,36,30,27],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-aquarium","tag-cleanup-on-aisle-5","tag-family","tag-food","tag-potluck","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}